But encouraged by my first success, and by his eulogiums, which reached my ears, I went to see him; he returned my visit, and thus began the connection between us, which will ever render him dear to me.

By him, as well as from the testimony of my own heart, I learned that uprightness and probity may sometimes be connected with the cultivation of letters.
Many other connections less solid, and which I shall not here particularize, were the effects of my first success, and lasted until curiosity was satisfied.

I was a man so easily known, that on the next day nothing new was to be discovered in me.

However, a woman, who at that time was desirous of my acquaintance, became much more solidly attached to me than any of those whose curiosity I had excited: this was the Marchioness of Crequi, niece to M.le Bailli de Froulay, ambassador from Malta, whose brother had preceded M.de Montaigu in the embassy to Venice, and whom I had gone to see on my return from that city.

Madam de Crequi wrote to me: I visited her: she received me into her friendship.
I sometimes dined with her.